A Route to Modernism
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A Route to Modernism

Hardy, Lawrence, Woolf

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eBook - PDF

A Route to Modernism

Hardy, Lawrence, Woolf

About this book

The question 'What is modernism?' has provoked intense critical discussion. A Route to Modernism explores this area; it focuses on the strange and dangerous journey taken by Hardy, Lawrence and Woolf towards unknown regions of the mind and the universe. In a discussion of these novelists, both individually and in relation to one another, a radical reconsideration of modernism is developed. Woolf envisaged her contemporaries 'flashing past on another railway line'. A Route to Modernism shows the hypothetical train of Hardy, Lawrence and Woolf not following an existing track but tunnelling beneath surfaces, following routes which are 'spasmodic, fragmentary', sometimes taking off like a rocket into the cosmos. Their fragmented, modernist works deny us 'the comfort of... a single meaning, either in works of art or in the world'. This book offers new approaches to modernism, while insisting on books being left 'open - no conclusion come to '.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Plates
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Preface
  6. List of Abbreviations
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 The Experimental and the Absurd in Two on a Tower
  9. 3 Some Surrealist Elements in Hardy's Prose and Verse
  10. 4 Chance and Indeterminacy in Hardy's Novels and Poetry
  11. 5 Discoveries of Dissonance: Hardy's Late Fiction
  12. 6 The Well-Beloved: a Modernist Experiment?
  13. 7 The Adventure to the Unknown: Hardy, Lawrence and Developments in the Novel
  14. 8 A Language of the Unconscious: The Rainbow
  15. 9 Women in Love
  16. 10 Virginia Woolf and D.H. Lawrence
  17. 11 Hardy to Woolf: a Route to Modernism
  18. 12 'Books open: no conclusion come to'
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index
  22. Color Plates